Link to article: https://apnews.com/article/kashmir-india-autonomy-supreme-court-status-d7e9b2c0cb0222e18de08d75c6b0ebc5 India’s Supreme Court upheld Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2019 decision to revoke Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, making it a federally administered territory. This is the first time in Indian history that a state has been reverted to a territory, the unprecedented move dividing them into Ladakh and Jammu-Kashmir. Chief Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud urged the… Read more »
Link to article: Taliban sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence, says UN report | AP News Taliban officials have been sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence. The 23 state sponsored women protection centers, where victims of gender-based violence could find refuge, are gone. This is because the Taliban believe that… Read more »
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3245358/china-urges-iran-and-saudi-arabia-work-together-avoid-miscalculation-diplomats-meet-restoration-ties Foreign Minister Wang Yi has recently spoken with senior Saudi and Iranian officials in the first meeting of a committee to support relations between the two countries. About the US, Saudia’s ally and Iran’s rival, the Chinese government calls on the Middle Eastern countries to ‘eliminate external interference’. Also going on to say “The Middle East can no longer… Read more »
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-777775 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of Israel, spoke with Putin for 50 minutes and expressed sharp criticism of the dangerous cooperation between Russia and Iran, as in recent developments Iran inches closer to Russia. The governments completed work on a new treaty and spoke of a Gaza ceasefire, as well as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaking with Iranian Foreign… Read more »
Link to article: https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-human-rights-un-7bc72e9339e37ba9a5b70b20ee72c58f The Taliban must embrace and uphold humans’ rights obligations in Afghanistan. Basic human rights have been revoked, women and girls some of the most affected. The bans include inclusion to most public spaces and daily life, which has been globally condemned. The UN has been documenting the Taliban’s extrajudicial killings, torture and ill-treatment, corporal punishment, arbitrary… Read more »
China is about to complete a new highway near its border with India which can potentially allow a rapid mobilization of their troops which can be used if these countries ever have a military standoff. China has been worried about its G219 highway which runs along the country’s entire western and southern border linking the regions of Xinjiang and Tibet…. Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/10/iran-begins-trial-of-swedish-eu-employee-accused-of-spying-for-israel A Swedish national employed by the EU is undergoing trial for supposedly “spying for Israel”. This crime carries the death penalty. Johan Floderus was indicited based on “corruption of Earth” and was arrested on April 17th, 2022 in a Tehran airport after returning from a trip with his friends. In a statement, Iran’s judiciary said that Floderus had been… Read more »
The Pakistani government has just recently announced that undocumented Afghans awaiting paperwork to resettle into a third country will be allowed to stay in Pakistan for two more months. Over 450,00 Afghans have left since Pakistani authorities launched a deportation drive in October. Pakistan’s drive to expel over a million foreigners living in their country without paperwork. According to the… Read more »
The Defence Minister of Iran Mohammad Reza Ashtiani warned that a planned United States-backed multinational task force to protect shipping in the Red Sea would face “extraordinary problems”. These threats were said because the US said last week it was in talks with other countries to set up a task force after attacks by the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen. Ashtiani… Read more »
https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-seeks-us-help-against-pakistani-taliban-in-afghanistan/7397076.html Pakistan’s army chief is in Washington this week seeking U.S. assistance against what Pakistan alleges are terrorist havens in neighboring Afghanistan, as Pakistan believes there has been an escalation in terrorist activities since the Afghan Taliban regained power in Afghanistan in 2022. The Pakistani government has been trying to convince U.S. security and defense officials that militant groups such… Read more »
